Clasica San Sebastian

Now that this competition is open, I thought I'd get the thread up nice and early, especially for us standard players who don't have the Tour of Poland (with added Italian bits) for our post-TdF fantasy cycling fix.

I've gone for a preliminary team of 9 Spaniards.

Has anyone got a link to show the 2013 route?

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Ghedebrav[1099 posts]5 years ago

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My team is also Spaniard-heavy - just one random Portugee in there at the moment.

I've tried to avoid the main protagonists from the tour as they might just fancy an easy day whereas some of the fresher boys might push it along a bit.

There's no doubting Valverde, Quintana, J-Rod and Porte will have come out of the tour with some fab form but is it just a bit to early for them to really push it again ?

My money is on a certain Spaniard who cycled for Euskaltel.

I think you've got your money in a dgood place... didn't want to put his name about though

I generally agree with your post-Tour reasoning, but Valverde could be an exception as despite riding well his final place on GC will have been disappointing for him. This could be his last chance this year to win a WT-level race, he's clearly ridden into fantastic form and wants at the very least the World Tour points (after losing so much time - and team leader status - at the Tour he had no need to ride so aggresively into the top 10). I think there's more to it than just wanting to bounce back.

no idea yet...lots of form from some, lots of rested legs from others...tough to choose! I feel gerrans could do well and either valverde gets pulled up the hills by Quintana (or other way round ) movistar look strong to me...just don't know yet

A few riders listed for this in the game that aren't on the startlists - hope no-one's got stung with Sammy Sanchez or Nordhaug for example. Glad I checked the website before the deadline this morning!